On June 30, 1966, one month before England won the World Cup, the Mackenzie Medical Institute was opened in the grounds of Burnley General Hospital.

Performing the ceremony was Lord Amulree, nephew of Sir James Mackenzie, the Victorian Burnley GP who won worldwide recognition thanks to his pioneering research into heart diseases.

He is in the centre of the photograph and with him, from the left, are Dr G Behr, Dr D Lamont, matron Miss T Hothersall, Dr F Marshall, Dr H Palin and Mr F Parr.

The new lounge, library and meeting room, which cost £8,000, were dedicated to Sir James, and Dr Lamont, chairman of Burnley and District Hospital Management Committee, said: "He must have been engulfed in poverty and the diseases associated with dirt while in Burnley, but still found time for heart research."

According to local historian Steve Chapples, there are two memorials to Sir James, both erected in September 1931 - a bronze bust set into a wall in Thompson Park and at 68, Bank Parade, where James eventually went into partnership with 54-year-old Doctor Henry Briggs and 37-year-old surgeon John Brown from 1879 to 1907.

He married Frances Jackson, governess to the Hargreaves coal mining family, and they had two daughters.

Dr Mackenzie invented and developed the ink polygraph, with the aid of a Padiham watchmaker, Sebastian Shaw, in 1906, which helped diagnose heart disease.

He demonstrated his invention to prominent physicians in Manchester and Liverpool and initially his lectures were often greeted with stony silence, but the value of his polygraph soon brought eminent doctors from all over Europe, America and Canada to Bank Parade.

The tall physician took an active part in the life of the cotton town. He was the first man in Burnley to own a car and employed his former coachman Ralph Lofthouse as his chauffeur.

In 1886 Prince Albert Victor opened Victoria Hospital at a cost of £13,000, and James worked there for many years.

He also campaigned for isolation hospitals to be built, and eventually one was built at Crown Point, and the other at Kibble Bank in November 1899.

The social deprivation he witnessed prompted him to write a novel called The Shuttle and Loom', under the pseudonym of Pixton Hill, the name of his father's farm. It is held at Burnley Library.

James helped found Hapton Golf Club, played chess in the Mechanics Institute, and was honorary secretary of the Burnley Literary and Scientific Club.

After leaving Burnley in 1907, he moved to Harley Street and became the world's leading heart consultant.